Nina Zumel - I blog about folklore and weird fiction. And on reading, writing, or anything else that I feel like.
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11 Nov 2022
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23 Oct 2022
Chamber of Horrors (1966) features the House of Wax set from Vincent Price's 1953 movie, and an over-the-top, Price-like performance from Patrick O'Neal as a ripper-like mass murderer in 19th century Baltimore. It's fun! #film #HorrorMovies
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9 Oct 2022
Part II of "Before Kolchak" : pilots for early, never-made occult detective #TV shows.
Dark Intruder (1965) stars Leslie Nielsen in turn of the 20th century San Francisco. Produced by Alfred Hitchcock's Shamley Productions.
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7 Oct 2022
My mini-series on early attempts to put occult detectives on TV: what could have been, before Kolchak.
First entry: The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964), created by Joseph Stefano and starring Martin Landau.
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#occultdetectives #tv
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17 Sep 2022
A little travel anecdote that was possibly the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado."
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#classiccrime #reading
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7 Sep 2022
Two versions of a "true" haunting in Lille: one from a person who experienced it, and the other the result of the story being told and retold. Amusing to see the expansion.
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7 Sep 2022
Reading a book of "true" #ghoststories, collected over the years by Lord Halifax.
Entertaining read, plus amusing connections to other names one might recognize.
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28 Aug 2022
New #translation: Can the village women stop the old man in the castle from stealing all the young men?
Ramón García Sánchez's version of #folktale ATU 415 (A Shift of Sex).
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#fairytale
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28 Jul 2022
Check out the new VAMPIRES ebook and audiobook from @HorrorBabble !! They were kind enough to include my translation of "Family of the Vourdalak"
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#horror #vampires
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24 Jul 2022
My take on Fährmann Maria, an interesting fantasy film from the late German Expressionist period. Worth a watch. multoghost.wordpress.com/202…
#film #fantasy #Expressionism
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30 May 2022
I haven't been following Nu-Trek, but I did see the first few episodes of Strange New Worlds, and I liked it. It felt very much in the spirit of The Original Series, to me. The Ghosts of Illyria, in particular, captured the horror vibe that was present in TOS.
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30 May 2022
So maybe I'll get my wish: Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, done as TOSish era Star Trek. Except Pike wins, of course. multoghost.wordpress.com/201…
Advantage: it would *feel* like a TOS episode remake, w/o actually *being* a TOS episode remake...
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12 May 2022
I just read a wonderful collection of #ghoststories by Miyuke Miyabe. multoghost.wordpress.com/202… #reading
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23 Apr 2022
This past week in 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and for whodunit lovers, the rest is history. To commemorate, here's a lesser known Poe crime tale. It's not a whodunit, but it's fun all the same! multoghost.wordpress.com/202… #ClassicCrime #mystery
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4 Apr 2022
My latest #translation: A pastiche of a German gothic "deal with the devil" story, by 19th c. Spanish writer Pedro Escamilla. multoghost.wordpress.com/202… #supernatural #shortstory
23 Feb 2022
The Sea Change, a short story collection by @helengrantsays , is back in print as PB from @SwanRiverPress . I have this from its first run and I LOVE it. Do pick it up if you missed it the first time! swanriverpress.ie/seachange.…
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